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Another personal anecdote here- I'm self taught so maybe I'm biased. I worked on a side project years ago with a guy who was a proud Stanford alum. He did some
by woah 11y ago
Another personal anecdote here- I'm self taught so maybe I'm biased. I worked on a side project years ago with a guy who was a proud Stanford alum. He did some kind of data sciencey stuff for his day job, but his ui code in this project was simply horrible. Like 2000 loc jquery spaghetti in a single file.
I've also worked with a team of recent bootcamp grads who were highly paid and wrote great ui code quickly. They wouldn't necessarily be up on all the newest tech, but if you told them to use something, they would go home, learn it, and implement it pretty well the next day.
Could the bootcamp ui coders do the Stanford guy's data science? Not a chance. But I know who's ui I would want to maintain.
Does this mean that all Stanford grads are writing spaghetti coasting off an Ivy League degree? Does it mean that all bootcamp grads are technically naive craftsmen? No. Assess coders on their code.
- santaclaus 11y agoStanford isn't an Ivy. ;)
- CyberDildonics 11y agoPeople seem very offended by this fact. Stanford isn't an Ivy League school. Wikipedia: The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
- arcanus 11y agothey shouldn't care: ivy league is just a sports association
- ritchiea 11y agoI had a similar experience with an Ivy CS grad with most of his prior work being writing code for financial services companies. Smart guy, easy to work with but tremendously messy code that often failed to take advantage of the language's standard library or the framework's utilities in favor of writing everything himself and not necessarily abstracting functionality out to classes or modules to be re-used.